UN environmental ambassador builds a 20,000 square-foot home with six-car garage, an elevator and a lagoon

A supermodel environmentalist is still a supermodel before she’s an environmentalist:

What kind of U.N. environmental ambassador builds a 20,000 square-foot home with a six-car garage, an elevator and a lagoon? Why, that would be the Hub’s favorite Pats fan, Gisele Bundchen!

Green folk are dismayed:

“How big a space do two people need?” asked Philip Dowds, a Massachusetts Sierra Club official and professional architect. “A 20,000 square-foot house - the resources that it takes to put it together and the land that it needs, this just can’t happen anymore.”

Apparently it can.

Tim Blair

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Star hypocrites and their private jets

From Andrew Bolt Thursday, May 14, 2009 at 12:04am   Oprah Winfrey is very concerned about global warming: “I believe that everybody should see [An Inconvenient Truth],” Oprah says. Oprah gets a pal onto her show to preach about saving the planet: Former Vice President Al Gore delivers the sobering news about a threat to our civilization’s future. Oprah suggests he show folks how to save the planet in one little trip: Take a trip to the hardware store with Al Gore to see what you can do to stop global warming. But when Oprah makes her own little trip, all that global warming preaching is suddenly forgotten as she climbs up the stairs to her private Bombardier. Said she this week: It’s great to have a private jet. Anyone that tells you that having your own private jet isn’t great is lying to you. All of which proves what fools people were to name Al Gore and Oprah among the most influential of preachers on global warming: Former US vice-president and recent environmental celebrity Al Gore has topped the list of most influential people to champion the cause of global warming in a 47-country Internet survey conducted by The Nielsen Company and Oxford University.   Over a quarter of Australian consumers (28%) picked Al Gore as the most influential spokesperson to champion the global warming debate (compared to 18% globally), ahead of talk show megastar Oprah Winfrey (23%) and PR stuntman Richard Branson (20%). Oh, and Sir Richard Brazen’s latest effort for the global warming cause? Australia’s most famous environmentalist, Tim Flannery, has lent his name to a scheme by the world’s most infamous self-publicist, Richard Branson, to burn untold tonnes of greenhouse gases so rich people can become space tourists. Flannery yesterday defended his new role as an “environmental consultant” to Branson’s Virgin Galactic venture, which aims to sell space trips to civilians. Truly, global warming is the first major religion to be led entirely by shameless sinners, attended by assorted hypocrites and carpetbaggers.

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